Minnesota 17U: Open Period Results

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>How did Minnesota teams do during the open period? Outstanding. Here's a quick run down of what teams did around the nation!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>The Last Dance</strong>. Here are the Standings and some great wins!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[program_tooltip program_id='2075672' first='Minnesota' last='Fury'] (4-0). Won their pool A games by an average of 12-13 points a game including an eight point win over a very good Joe Little Athletics program out of Texas.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[program_tooltip program_id='2075685' first='Minnesota' last='Select'] (3-1). Knocked off Team 1848 out of Wisconsin, last year's 17U Hard Work champs.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Minnesota Lightning (3-1). Lost to Iowa Prep, won a one score game over New Mexico D1, beat 1848 by a big margin..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Real Phenom Nick (3-1). Bounced back from a loss to ECI to win three in a row .</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Minnesota Rush (4-0). Not only won their pool, Rush won by a dozen per game, </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[program_tooltip program_id='2075674' first='Minnesota' last='Heat'] Jones (3-1). Good win over the Michigan Goonies by a score, lost to NEBC by a score, </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[program_tooltip program_id='2075685' first='Minnesota' last='Select'] Fuerte (3-1). Only loss was to (Dennis) Hopson Elite out of Ohio.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[program_tooltip program_id='2075672' first='Minnesota' last='Fury'] Muir (3-1). One point win over NEBC National, one point win over Beast Elite, only loss was to Chicago Lockdown.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[program_tooltip program_id='2075310' first='Northstar' last='Titans'] Brodeur (4-0). Titans beat Real Phenom Ivan and all of the others winning by 15 a game on average.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[program_tooltip program_id='2078859' first='Starks' last='Elite'] (3-1). Won at least three games, maybe four, not sure the end result of one of them. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Minnesota Chill Elite (3-1). Won the pool with a 15 point edge in the differential.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[program_tooltip program_id='2075310' first='Northstar' last='Titans'] Wynia (3-1). Another Minnesota team that won their pool, the differential was five points. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Minnesota Crossfire Becker (4-0). Won their pool by a dozen points a game, same pool had Heat Dedina who went 3-1. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Adidas 3SSB</strong>. At the top Adidas championships [player_tooltip player_id='1288733' first='Isaac' last='Asuma'] made headlines with his performance against Compton Magic. Asuma helped [program_tooltip program_id='2075431' first='D1' last='Minnesota'] pick up three wins in Rock Hill.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>J Sizzle was in the second group and they performed exceptionally well winning all five of their games. [player_tooltip player_id='1172835' first='Casmir' last='Chavis'] and [player_tooltip player_id='1284106' first='Chiang' last='Ring'] earned themselves a strong response from scouts and college coaches for their play. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Peach Invitational Tournament</strong>. [player_tooltip player_id='1287438' first='Jackson' last='McAndrew'] was the talk of the high school basketball world July 3-4 for his 57 points across his first two games. So much so that Duke was on hand to watch his last few games. Pulley started strong and went 4-4 for the week (and when I saw week I mean week, they played eight games across six days). </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>UAA Rise</strong>. The Minnesota [program_tooltip program_id='2075852' first='Spartans' last=''] had a good showing in the UA Rise winning three games in the event led by [player_tooltip player_id='1284157' first='Jerome' last='Williams Jr'] having some of best outings of the summer. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Summer Jam</strong>. Comets Elite lost their first two games but bounced back to beat Moss Elite by 14 and Milwaukee Trailblazers by four points (the team that [program_tooltip program_id='2078859' first='Starks' last='Elite'] beat by ten and Titans Wynia beat by 14 at NHR State). Comets went 2-3, Comets Petermeier went 2-5, and Team X Magic went 2-1. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->